[Remote] Chief Science & Innovation Officer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Radicle Science is a healthtech pioneer focused on proven, precision wellness. They are seeking a Chief Science & Innovation Officer to lead the company’s long-term strategic scientific vision, drive innovation, and ensure integration across various teams to create meaningful health impacts. Responsibilities • Ensure integration across, and evolution of, our protocol design, outcome measures, trial execution, analysis, and interpretation • Coordinate with our internal and external Principal Investigators, as well as our academic collaborators • Ensure our evidence generation meets the highest standards of rigor while pragmatically serving client goals, consumer needs, and regulatory expectations • Provide strategic executive leadership to two established senior leaders • Cross-functional collaboration with our technology, data, marketing, sales, and customer success teams to ensure our scientific strategy is aligned throughout the company • Provide clients with scientific guidance on formulation strategy & feasibility • Support clients by collaborating with formulators and contract manufacturers to prepare their products for trial • Support clients with their IP/patent strategy related to their formulas and trial data • Serve as a Radicle scientific representative with industry, investors, partners, and the broader health ecosystem Skills • PhD or equivalent in a life science field • 10+ years experience conducting or sponsoring clinical trials on non-prescription/non-pharmaceutical health interventions • 10+ years experience working for food, beverage, or supplement companies • 5+ years experience working with formulators and contract manufacturers • Strong understanding of biostatistics • Experience with intellectual property and patent strategy • Experience serving as Principal Investigator on clinical trials • Experience authoring peer-reviewed publications • Experience managing senior leaders and multidisciplinary teams • U.S based, willing to travel ~8x/year travel for team gatherings, conferences, and partner meetings • Native, or near-native/mastery proficiency in English • Strategic, innovative thinker who is also able to rapidly execute • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Strong, confident public speaker comfortable representing the company externally • Experienced in client-facing roles • Able to translate science for non-technical audiences • Comfortable balancing scientific considerations with business & consumer realities • Low-ego, collaborative, adaptable, decisive • Proven ability to operate in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving company environment • Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally with non-scientific teams • High proficiency with AI tools • Experience securing grants from government agencies and foundations • Based in Southern California Company Overview • Radicle Science is a health tech company that offers an accelerated, non-FDA route to drug validation. It was founded in 2020, and is headquartered in San Diego, California, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is